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S-Words And S-Phrases Trivia Quiz

This quiz alternates multiple choice questions with other hints. All questions concern words or phrases beginning in 'S'.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
74,290

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
1313

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. In the Roman-Catholic Tradition SALVE Regina is a well-known 'greeting song' for Mary. With what related word do you refer to a military salute implying the firing of guns?

Answer: (Five letters.)

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Question 2 of 10

2. If you want fried eggs for breakfast, you can ask to have your eggs ____
______
_____ Hint

sunny side up

slippery side up

slimy side up

shiny side up

3. Lots of oranges in Spain. Also lots of blood in the corrida, and even in Spanish history, especially during Inquisition and during Civil War. Logically their colours are 'sangre y oro'. Even one of their most popular drinks - made of red wine, slices of oranges,sugar, and a few more 'details' - looks slightly bloody. That's why they call it: ________?

Answer: (Seven letters.)

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Question 4 of 10

4. When you decide not to use any personal vehicle or public means of transport, to cover a certain distance, in short when you decide to walk it, you are travelling on _________'s mare (or pony)?

Answer: (Related to German Schinken for ham.)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which of these have or has the motto 'Semper Fidelis'? Hint

the Boy Scouts

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Marines

the Vatican

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is the word that refers to a military signal played on a trumpet and that announces ceremonial entrances and exits? Hint

a sennet

a sennight

a signet

a sennit

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Question 7 of 10

7. What is the correct term for a very young tree, bigger than a seedling, but not over four inches in diameter yet?
Hint

stripling

sapling

treeling

suckling

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Question 8 of 10

8. What's the name of the season during which there is little news , and the papers have to resort to trivial items, even hoaxes, to fill their space? Hint

silent season

stupid season

sleepy season

silly season

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Question 9 of 10

9. A stylus was the pointed instrument for writing. Later a shortened version of 'stylus' became the normal term for a certain specific way of writing nl. somebody's ________

Answer: (One Word. 5 letters.)

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Question 10 of 10

10. Anyone who has read Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' will know that the ideal tool to kill a vampire, is the thick wooden pointed stick you have to drive through his heart. What's is the normal English word for such a stick?

Answer: (One Word. 5 letters.)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In the Roman-Catholic Tradition SALVE Regina is a well-known 'greeting song' for Mary. With what related word do you refer to a military salute implying the firing of guns?

Answer: salvo

Salve Regina means something like: Greetings to you, my Queen.

2. If you want fried eggs for breakfast, you can ask to have your eggs ____ ______ _____

Answer: sunny side up

Very pictorial expression! In Dutch you call this a 'mirror egg', the egg-yolk looking like a mirror in a frame of egg-white. Another, strictly Flemish expression is 'horse's egg'.

Answer: sangria

Do not confuse this with Shangri-la.

Answer: shank

The German and Dutch equivalents for shank are Schenkel. Both on shanks's (or shank's) pony and on shanks's mare are mentioned by Cambridge International Dictionary of English.

5. Which of these have or has the motto 'Semper Fidelis'?

Answer: U.S. Marines

The Boy Scouts and the U.S. Coast Guard both have 'Semper Parati'.

6. What is the word that refers to a military signal played on a trumpet and that announces ceremonial entrances and exits?

Answer: a sennet

A sennit or sinnit is a nautical term for a cordage made by pleating several strands of yarn. A sennight = seven nights. A signet is a small seal. Some etymologists believe that sennet developed from signet in the sense of a signal or sign that entering or leaving was approved of.

7. What is the correct term for a very young tree, bigger than a seedling, but not over four inches in diameter yet?

Answer: sapling

Words ending with '-ling' often have a diminutive meaning. Sucklings are children or animals that are not yet weaned. A stripling is a youth, not a stripper. Though it occurs on the Internet, "treeling" is not a current word in English. It has been used by creative minds to refer to fictitious creatures, tree-like dolls, etc.

There is also the fledgling and that is a young bird that has just grown the feathers necessary to fly.

8. What's the name of the season during which there is little news , and the papers have to resort to trivial items, even hoaxes, to fill their space?

Answer: silly season

This meaning of silly is related to German selig or Dutch zalig.Those words originally meant: blessed,happy,lucky,without trouble. One's man's luck alas often is another man's poison, and no profession thrives as much on other people's bad luck as the journalist's.

9. A stylus was the pointed instrument for writing. Later a shortened version of 'stylus' became the normal term for a certain specific way of writing nl. somebody's ________

Answer: style

A derived word is stylistics.

Answer: stake

Stakes was also what a certain Rumanian prince enjoyed using to execute his prisoners.

Source: Author flem-ish

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